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Even if someone wants to genuinely switch job within next few month out of Uber, It would raise eyebrows at next interview table. So Uber gonna have very mall attrition rate now. Every action has both side of coin. :)
12,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
Look at their job openings to get a sense of how massive of an operation Uber is: https://careers-uber.icims.com/jobs/search?iis=joindot-V101A...
Even how they hired Holder feels like a PR tactic; a man who was against all the US torture techniques (http://fightthefuture.org/articles/the-rescue-of-eric-holder...) and yet prosecuted no one. He is the image of a career, PR frontman.
I'm still going to take Lyft over Uber in cities that have it, and that's only if I simply can't wait for the bus.
12,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
Help manage the 1 million rides that happen every day in 450 cities. Multiple products, localization, recruiting, customer support, operations, etc etc etc. Look at their job openings to get a sense of how massive of an operation Uber is: https://careers-uber.icims.com/jobs/search?iis=joindot-V101A...
How do they manage the rides? I thought it was handled by the app?
12,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
are you the type to ask that question about google and facebook too? uber is facebook minus a few years and has similiar numbers
Does it make having "Uber" in your Career Profile look bad now? Even if someone wants to genuinely switch job within next few month out of Uber, It would raise eyebrows at next interview table. So Uber gonna have very mall attrition rate now. Every action has both side of coin. :)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Help manage the 1 million rides that happen every day in 450 cities. Multiple products, localization, recruiting, customer support, operations, etc etc etc. Look at their job openings to get a sense of how massive of an operation Uber is: https://careers-uber.icims.com/jobs/search?iis=joindot-V101A...
>manage How do they manage the rides? I thought it was handled by the app?
The article doesn't discuss the seniority of the fired employees. It's very hard to distinguish between scapegoating and actually working to fix the problem without that information. The problem with Uber isn't that some employees engage in sexual harassment. The problem is that there's a culture where sexual harassment isn't taken seriously, is tolerated if the perpetrators are "high performing" in other respects, a…
Is there? I've seen people claim this but I haven't seen any evidence for it. I know Susan Fowler's account is used frequently as basis for that statement and though I don't doubt her sincerity and truthfulness, you can't just extrapolate her experience to the entire (global) company.
12,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
At a valuation of $6m/employee it's hard to argue with.